- Overview
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Social Sciences Citation Index®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings.
Overcome information overload and focus on essential data from over 1,950 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines, as well as 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Thoroughly covers 50 social sciences disciplines.
With Social Sciences Citation Index, you can:
- Find high-impact articles from peer-reviewed, influential journals.
- Uncover relevant results in related fields.
- Discover emerging trends that help you pursue successful research and grant acquisition.
- Identify potential collaborators with significant citation records.
- Integrate searching, writing, and bibliography creation into one streamlined process.
Why choose Social Sciences Citation Index?
- Comprehensive and Relevant Coverage: Every journal included in Social Sciences Citation Index® has met the high standards of an objective evaluation process that eliminates clutter and excess and delivers data that is accurate, meaningful and timely.
- Cited Reference Searching: Track prior research and monitor current developments, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of colleagues' work, and follow the path of today's hottest ideas. Navigate forward, backward and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to discover information with impact.
- Easy Author Identification: Locate articles written by the same authors in a simple, single search. Find the right author, right away - eliminating the problems of similar author names or several authors with the same name.
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Insightful Analysis Options: Find hidden trends and
patterns, gain insight into emerging fields of research, and identify
leading researchers, institutions, and journals with the Analyze Tool.
You can also capture citation activity with Citation Report, instantly
creating formatted reports to view vital citation information for
individuals or institutions.
- What's Included
- Cover-to-cover indexing: With Social Sciences Citation Index, you can access every significant item from a journal, including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, and more.
- A full range of disciplines: Find information in areas such as anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and information and library sciences.
- Integrated bibliography management: Use EndNote® Web, fully integrated and freely available to any Social Sciences Citation Index user, to easily access and organize your references online. Send references to EndNote® Web, as you search, share EndNote® Web, folders with others, store references online between search sessions.
- KeyWords Plus®: Enhance the power of cited reference searching by searching across disciplines for all the articles that have cited references in common.
- Times Cited: Discover a paper's influence by linking to all the papers that have cited it.
- Full-text links: Directly access publishers' full-text articles.
- Alerting and RSS feeds: Keep up to date with the information that matters to you by saving general, cited reference and chemical structure searches as email alerts. Or set up RSS feeds for saved searches and Citation Alerts.
- Tech Specs
Format and Delivery Options:
- Internet: Via Web of Science®, updated weekly; backfiles to 1956.
- CD-ROM: With author abstracts: updated monthly, includes annual cumulation on one disc; available to 1992. Without author abstracts: updated quarterly, includes annual cumulation on one disc; available to 1981; networking options.
- Online via Social SciSearch: Updated weekly; backfiles to 1972. Network options available online via distribution partners; updated weekly.
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SciSearch via DIALOG, DIMDI; STN: backfiles to
1972/1973.
- Of Related Interest
- Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded® is just one of the multidisciplinary citation databases available within Web of Science®, the definitive resource for global research. You can search five databases simultaneously within Web of Science® as well as any other databases you subscribe to through ISI Web of Knowledge.
- Science Citation Index Expanded® :Over 6,650 major journals across 150 disciplines, to 1900
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index®: over 1,160 arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,000 scientific and social sciences journals
- Index Chemicus®:Over 2.6 million compounds, to 1993
- Current Chemical Reactions®: Over one million reactions, to 1986, plus INPI archives from 1840 to 1985
- ISI Web of Knowledge: Quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities with this premier research platform. Whether you're writing a paper, looking for potential collaborators, analyzing research performance or evaluating your library's collection, ISI Web of Knowledge is built to accommodate your style of discovery and analysis.